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I am all right, brother, I'm good God you're up and about early this morning.
Man, No water at the house. Oh, I don't know it. It's not like it's been freezing here recently or anything. We did all the took all the precautions when it was, but had a water line break underneath the kitchen sink last night.
Nothing more frustrating, you know.
I mean, fortunately I remembered where the big well, your key whatever you call that thing was to go out and shut off the water of the entire house before we you know, had up with a massive flood on our hands. So we avoided that, thankfully. But ye got the plumber coming out this morning, so yeah, no, no, I got here early because I couldn't take a shower, so he just rolled right in I just well, I
took a few precautions. Okay, thank you. Yeah, so yeah, early start, but as it never fails, does this happen to you if you get here like fifteen twenty minutes early? Oh yeah, it seems like well suddenly you still taking the same amount of time to get things done before airtime.
Anyway, you'll find a way to kill that to absolutely, and.
Somehow I did this morning. I'm not sure how that worked out anyway, but you know, all's well, I'm just hey, I praise god this didn't happen. We were out of town last week.
You would have been looking at some major damage.
Yeah. Yeah, so you know what I can't complain. It's yeah, it's a little nippy out there this morning. Year old out that rain on the way, says Tyler.
It was it was eighty on Sunday.
Yeah, it'll be forty four today. Yeah, we're lucky. Craziness uh nearly forty degrees cooler in a matter of forty eight hours. Wow. All right, run down big stories, hot topics. Okay, it's February the eleventh, twenty twenty five. I'm not sure what that first Tuesday in November of twenty twenty six. What date that is. I do know this, It's a long way away, but you would think that we were in the middle of a heated gubernatorial race here in South Carolina.
Nancy Mace has gone scorched earth.
Scorched earth. Yeah, so, and we were. We found out yesterday this was this was coming, that Mace was going to go on the floor of the House of Represented if she did it. So at seven o'clock last night, laying out all sorts of allegations pertaining to her ex fiance and his business part and three of his business partners, accusing them of recording incidents of sexual exploitation, of voyeurism, and of assaulting multiple women, including herself.
Yeah, that's and she says she saw videos of all this as evidence, videos of all this on his phone, on.
His phone, which apparently there's a story goes told by Congresswoman Mace that he had locked his phone away, wouldn't give her access to it, and then at some point, I guess decided to let her see the phone.
And I think she had seen him on a dating app on a dating app, called him on it and he said, now we'll take a look. I'm not doing anything wrong.
And then she found she says, all sorts of other So what ten thousand or so videos videos that that went over a couple of decades, right, okay, all right, so that's part A. Part B then is uh, you know, was this all just a setup to go after Alan Wilson, who you know will more than likely be running for governor but hasn't made that announcement yet, nor has Mace for that matter. Goes after Wilson, the Attorney General, saying that he's not protecting women, that you know his officers
aware of this, they refused to do anything. Yeah, yeah, yeadh blaff, so on and so forth, accusing the age of not prosecuting these crimes. Well, again, you know, the proof is in the pudding. We know the AG's office has been very very involved in cases like this, in sexual predatory cases, child predators, so on and so forth. Wilson's office releasing a statement last night saying that the two had had seen each other at multiple events over
the last six months. This was never brought up that Mace has Wilson's personal cell phone number, She's never called she, she says, his office won't't has not is not taking any action on this. Well, anyway, we'll get into all of this and all the details coming up.
And unfortunately, I mean, there are there are very few people that are going to fall for a stunt like this. Yeah, I mean, and that's what it is. It's just a stunt start. Yes, Unfortunately, Frowlin Wilson. One of those people who will fall for it is Donald Trump, because Trump is very superficial and Trump is only about you know, how much noise you can make, and you know how many people's attention you can get, and and and how many times you'll praise him. So yeah, for Trump, I mean,
for Mace, that's a big deal. That's that puts her right into Trump's wheelhouse.
Yeah, but again we're a long way away from election day and a long way away from Trump, you know, endorsing a candidate here.
So and if this is, if this is, if these are all all the cards, if this is her quote unquote Trump card, you would have thought she would have waited till a little later to play it.
And that was what was curious. Was now Slid has confirmed that there is an investigation underway, and that's the way the thing's just supposed to go. It goes to a law enforcement agency then refer to the Attorney General's office. They are not the office of origin when it comes to prosecuting crimes like this. But you know these conveniently either didn't know or just forgot that part part. Well, anyway,
we'll get some more on this later on. About a dozen amicus brieves filed yesterday at the US Supreme Court groups here disputing the governor's executive order that would halt state medicaid funds from going to Planned parenthood. Arguments were set for April second. According to the Supreme Court docket, classrooms in our states, will they be seeing a decrease in attendance due to fears of ice raids? Well, there are advocates here in our states saying that yeah they will,
and they're calling for policies to protect students from ice. Okay, upstate business man says he'll run against Lindsey Graham. This is not Mark was it Mark Warren? Was that his name? Who we might have had a good chance a while back, maybe, but then he wanted to run for Gobett. Well whatever Mark Lynch is? Is this Upstate Business? Your time at John Warren? John Warren? Yes, John Warren Lynch, a one time state House candidate, is challenging says he will challenge
Lindsey Graham for a seat in twenty twenty six. Wow, that maybe the last time you hear that name.
I was going to say name recognition with them not very high, not high at all.
As he said he would on Air Force one heading down to the Super Bowl on Sunday. Trump did sign off on the twenty five percent tariffs on steel and
aluminum imports yesterday, the judiciary being active. Federal judge yesterday saying that the Trump white House hasn't fully followed his orders to unfreeze federal spending and telling the White House to at least billions of dollars in funding meantime, For the second time in less than a week, a judge ordering a restraining order against the mass Trump buyout offered to federal employees, even though some sixty five thousand have already accepted it. Yeah, and what are the reasons?
I mean, Trump is in charge of the executive department, He controls the purse I mean, I know Congress controls the purse strings, but the president should be able to hire and fire anybody who works for the government.
Right. Oh yeah, and he's not even firing people here. He's just saying, hey, go back to the office place if you don't want to take the buy out, and we'll pay it to September. Well, could be more magnanimous, right, huh.
I mean, it's not like he's trying to fire Congress or fire Supreme Court. Just these are people who work for the government, Yeah, who work for the people. Supposedly, all hell will break out. Trump says if all all of the Jimas hostages are not released. He says by this Saturday at noon, this after Hamas canceled all hostage releases. They say, into further notice, they claim that the Israelis are breaking the oh the ceasefire.
So their claim is we got more to talk about on the Doge front, US eight and more, where some of this money has been going, like to designated terrorists. Yeah right, and uh, well, it looks like they're getting closer to getting more Trump nominees through the Senate. Tulci gabbered last night, clearing another Senate confirmation hurdle, and RFK Junior's nomination getting a boost after Susan Collins says she
will vote to confirm. All right, we'll be watching that and more here on this the Tuesday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News.
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Six and more. Antilia, Welcome into a Tuesday. It's Tyler mentioned promises to be a rainy day and ready a couple of days for us here. It's February the eleventh, and we appreciate you joining us this morning. All right. Pete Heggsath, the head of the Pentagon now making his first international trip this morning, waking up in Germany, flying to Germany. There he's meeting the troops and other, of course, the Allies in his first overseas trip as the Secretary
of the Department of Defense. Well. Amemo released yesterday by Hegsath actually was apparently written back late last week, halting all sex change procedures or services for all Armed Force members, directing Pentagon officials to enforce compliance with Trump's executive order that forbids personnel with a gender identity vergent from an individual sex. This includes halting all sex change operations and promotions to persons with a history of gender dysphoria, so
on and so forth. Okay, interesting to note here that under the Biden administration only we have this kind of thing going on, of course, but other various concentary forms of wokness. And well, it was well documented how the service branches were missing their goals when it came to recruiting and missing big time. Well, the shift actually came. I think this. Actually we saw this before Biden left
the White House at least it had started. But now the shift is dramatic, the messaging shift, how the military is reaching out. The army, for example, no more woke army recruitment advertisements. Oh we saw the Army ran ads under Biden, ads that featured LGBTQ parades. There was an ad that ran back in twenty twenty one about a
female University of California, Berkeley. Cal Berkeley's graduate decision to find herself in the Army featured an activist parade, a lesbian wedding, and the suggestion that supporting non straight couples was somehow comparable to defending the nation. Yes, this was the messaging the Army was putting out. Well, is it any wonder why you're missing your recruiting quotas The Army failed to recruit meet its quotas in fiscals. Year of fiscal year is twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three. It
did hit its lowered goal in twenty twenty one. They had lowered the goal. Then, well that's turned around now Army recruitment is now at a fifteen year high. The difference is well trump, Yeah, but the messaging and pride and pride, yes, not the kind of pride that usually gets not that pride, right, yeah, not that pride. You're now seeing Warrior Ethos, a ad that came out last week. Army video caption we Fight to Win in all caps.
If you haven't seen it, it shows men, you know, biological men who are still men, firing guns while Rock and Roll blairs in the background. There's no ideological message here, just the terms. Hear what freedom sounds like? And lo and behold, Suddenly the Army is hitting its recruiting goals. Now, the other part of the welkness here was. So we've got to change the names of all these forts, right, I mean, come on, maybe one of the most famous was Fort Bragg. Fort Bragg up in North Carolina, which
under the Biden administration was renamed Fort Liberty. Well now it's once again Fort Bragg. But you can't do that because Bragg was a Confederate general. But not this brag.
A what a worker aound.
Hag Zeth announcing yesterday he has directed the army to change the name of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg. He says, that's right, Bragg is back. But before the protest starts, this is he's ordered the fort to be renamed after Well, actually, this official name Fort Roland Roland L. Brag,
not General Braxton Bragg, the Confederate general. This new name pays tribute to Private first Class Roland L. Brag, a hero of World War Two, earned the Silver Star the Purple Heart for exceptional courage during fighting at the Battle of the Bulge.
So there's a brag. We can all get behind the right brag.
We can all get behind right. But somebody's gonna have a problem with this, you know, somebody will. So Fort Bragg is back, but not Braxton Bragg Roland L. Brag, not a general, a private first class, not a Confederate general U S. Army soldier who served valiantly in World War Two. Uh okay, So yeah, you know, let's let's get back to having the our military focus on the things military should be focusing on. Because guess what, well, the Democrats had the military focus on all these other things.
You think our enemies were focusing on those things. No, they were fighting. They were focusing on being better fit, being better ready to fight, which is what we should have been doing all along, which is what we've always done until, of course, the Democrats took control. M hm okay, all right, we got a lot going on today. This Nancy Mace uh speech up on the House floor last night? Uh is was this just just to go after Alan Wilson?
And and if so, does she have any real I mean, she says she does, but is yet real evidence against her ex fiance and the three other business associates who she is alleging have done some very heinous things. There is a sled investigation going on, yes, but at what point in time does an Attorney General's office get involved? Well, We've got more to talk about on that front. Coming up for the next half hour. The accusations by Mace. What the four men she's accusing of these crimes are saying.
While some media outlets have not identified the three business associates, the Post and Courier did and didn't at least get a statement from each of them. And how does the Attorney General's office respond to these accusations against it? Coming up at about seven sixteen on this the Tuesday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News.
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Sixteen after seven o'clock in the morning for Tuesday, February the eleventh, and the governor's race here in South Carolina, which well, we don't have anybody actually officially in it yet, but you wouldn't know that by the news is being made. And last night Nancy Mace choosing to use as a setting the floor of the House of Representatives to level some very serious accusations against her ex fiancee, three of his business associates, and against the Attorney General Alan Wilson.
And there's a reason she used the floor.
There is, yes, maybe not known to a lot of folks, but by by doing this on the house floor, it shields her from any accusations of slander because you know, if you're on the house floor and you're a member of Congress, you can say whatever you want to say. It's not the same for you and me, but they can do that, which is why she used that form
in which to do this. So she's making allegations that her ex fiance, Patrick Bryant, three of his business associates had been involved and recording incidents of sexual exploitation, voyeurism, assaulting multiple women without their knowledge. And she says she too was a victim, that she was raped in one of these incidents. So I guess it all starts with when she apparently found out that her fiance was on
some dating site and she accosted him about that. Now apparently he had taken his phone and locked it away. But then I guess he takes both says here there's nothing here to see, and somehow in this process she discovers all these some ten thousand videos. I want into what his data plan looks like, you don't get ten
thousand videos on any smartphone. Now maybe these were, you know, videos that were uploaded to some other site or whatever, but somehow she winds up finding more than ten thousand, ten thousand.
And if he's got if he's got that kind of thing on his phone, wouldn't you have access restricted? Well, I mean, there are a lot of there are a lot of questions from the start, and here's.
The biggest question I've got now, whether or not these accusations hold any weight or not. By the way, while most media outlets did not name the three business partners, the Posting Courier did, and they contacted each and every one of them about this. They all, of course deny it, and in true dramatic fashion, early in her address, she put her hand on the Bible and swore she was
telling the truth. Okay, Now, the biggest question I've got is, this is the way this speech starts, and then it goes to, well, Alan Wilson and his office has done nothing about this, and we'll get to the AG's officer's response heor in just a second. My question is this Mason Patrick Bryant broke up late twenty twenty three it's been nearly a year and a half ago.
And then she said at one point that she was dodging him and finding alternate addresses where she could live without fear, and hiring bodyguards.
So this has been a build up to all of this. But here's what here's the question I have. If they broke up in late twenty twenty three, it was around that time she would have discovered all this, Right, why wait until now to go public with it? Well, I mean there's an answer for that, right, She's going to run for governor and her stiffest competitor is going to be Alan Wilson. Is all this coming out now just simply to lodge an attack against Alan Wilson, who she
claims his office has done nothing about this. Well, SLEDG is investigating, and this is the way it's supposed to work. You get law enforcement involved first, they do investigations in the AG's office gets involved after that. Now, the response from Wilson's office that she had had multiple opportunities to discuss this with him and never did that. Congresswoman Mace and the Attorney General have been at multiple events together over the last six months. She also has the Attorney
General's personal cell phone number. Not once has she approached or reached out to him regarding any of her concerns. The Office saying that Mace's categorization of Willson's office is categorically false. Miss Macey either does not understand or is purposefully mischaracterizing the role of the Attorney General. At this time, our office has not received any reports or request for
assistance from any law enforcement or prosecution agencies regarding this matter. Additionally, the Attorney General and members of his office have no role and no knowledge of these applic had no role or knowledge of these allegations until her public statements, so they've never been contacted. It's what the office has never.
Okay, this is uh, this isn't a surprise. I mean Nancy Mace has always been an attention hound. I mean you don't have to turn on Fox News for five minutes to know that, right. I mean she's on all the time, talking about even things that don't matter to her or aren't relevant to her, or she's not relevant to the topic. She still manages to get on constantly, and she's trying to get one person's attention right now, and that person lives on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Riddle me this though, that one person lives on Pennsylvania Avenue with the initials DJT. Yeah, oh well, I'm not passing any judgment on the veracity these allegations are not but you know, he's been involved in a lot of these cases too true. I'm not so sure whose side he might come down on to. Yeah, this is all
about getting the Trump endorsement. It's all about that. And for Nancy Mace, who was on again, off again with Trump, who was a big time in the doghouse after you know, she came out after Jay six and then remember Trump didn't even endorse her for her congressional primary after that. Well, she's somewhat back in as good grace as now. But this is a if, this is a way of getting
a Trump endorsement. It's February of twenty twenty five. We're a long we're a long way away from the from the next governor's race.
I don't think this is going to be the last we hear of her though. This is just this is just this week's stunned.
But how do you top this one? Yeah, it's true, you know, how do you top this one? Well, is this all just now a year, almost a year and a half after the fact, just now being made public simply as a way to attack the attorney general and her most formidable opponent if he decides to run for governor, and again she decides too. She hasn't officially announced. And if that's the case, Matt, it's is this the person you want to be governor of your state? Yeah, we haven't heard the end of this.
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It is seven forty three. Good morning, and welcome into a Tuesday. It's the eleventh of February. I'm Gary David with Christopher Thompson. We're here hanging out all nine o'clock. Will you And it's looking more and more likely as though maybe Matt Gates will be the only Trump nominee who didn't make it through. Well, he didn't go far to begin with. He never actually made it to the you know, let's sit down and talk about it, Matt stage.
But after Pete Hagsath, who faced great scrutiny but was eventually confirmed as the Pentagon chief, then it was okay, now you got Pulci Gabbard, Now you got rfk Jr. Now you got Cash Bettel. Well Gabbard, who of those three seemed like might have the toughest time through, cleared another confirmation hurdle last night, party line vote. She's approved by the Intelligence Committee, well she was last Tuesday. The Senate voting last night fifty two forty six to invoke
a cloture. So looks like the next couple of days they'll take up her final confirmation vote in the Senate. Susan Collins, whoa hey, aunt, Susan Collins, the main want I want to call her Democrat, but she's a Republican who did vote against Hexath. By the way, was one of these committee members that they've been keeping an eye on.
She wound up going along with this. Another Republican, Todd Young of Indiana, was considered a hold out, but he also decided to after she clarified her stance on certain comments, to support her.
So everyone who's talked to Tulsi Gabbard as opposed to, for example, some of the other more controversial picks. Everyone who has talked to Tulsa Gabbard, she seems to win them over. You know, they've they've said they've got questions about Edward Snowden, they've got questions about, you know, how she felt about Syria, and that it seems like whatever her answers are, they're the right answer.
They're working. Yes, yeah, And speaking of Susan Collins lo and behold Collins now says she'll vote to confirm our fk JR. WHOA, Okay, so that's a boost for fk JR. So, uh, it's looking more and more likely as though these are going to get through. M Yeah, don't just don't, don't. Don't pay much attention to the way the sausage is made. Just enjoy the end products. Who would have thought, now none of them are going to be unanimous. But no, no, no, no, they don't have to be. You have to even get
all the Republicans haggs. I sure didn't. Okay, uh do we have time to get into this right here? Let me just I'll tell you what next half hour we're gonna run through again more of the way your money is being spent by your government was being spent, was being spent. Thank you boy. Doge is just man. They are bringing so much information to us. It is we'd say it's eye opening, but I think a lot of us already kind of had a pretty good feeling what was going on. We just didn't know the specifics.
But when you hear the numbers and you hear what it went to, I mean, it's it's one thing to say there was government waste and they're wasting our money and they're throwing away billions of dollars billions, then you hear where it's going.
Hm. Just a good quick preview. Here, fifty nine million dollars that FEMA sent to luxury hotels at New York City to house illegal immigrants. Fifty nine million dollars FEMA, while you've got people living in tents.
And yet we were told taxpayer dollars weren't going so we were told to support illegal aliens.
We have American citizens in tents in the mountains of North Carolina, and you've got illegal immigrants living in luxury hotels in New York City and they're stays being paid for by you and me.
Yeah, and those hotels are being ruined, and then and who's going to pay for the rehab on those probably you and me. Yeah yeah, Because if I had a hotel, if I had a hotel that was damaged on the government dime, I'd go back to the government and say this was your fault.
Yeah, exactly. Well, we'll have more on that coming up in the next half hour. Thanks for joining us. That is the Tuesday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News.
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At fifteen minutes after eight o'clock. Good morning to you. Let me quickly correct something that Thomas mentioned in an earlier update about forty five minutes ago involving this Nancy Mayce story. I think he had mentioned that Mace had said she had contacted the Attorney General's office and had no response. That's not accurate. She did not say she
had contacted the AG's office. The AG's statement, they point out that at this time, our office has not received any reports or request for assistance from any law enforcement or prosecution agency regarding these matters, which is the way the process works. She did not say she had contacted Alan Wilson's office and I got a response last night, so correct that right there. All right, man, have you
got any popcorn left here? After watching all this Doge stuff, It's just been, as I mentioned, a last half hour. You know, the wolve's been gone from our eyes for a long time with all this. But to find out that details of weird taxpayer money has been going is it's just it makes you want to just just scream of the top of your lungs. Okay, So we kind
of preview this last half hour. Elon Musk, who whould have ever believed that the meeting the Democrats now could come up with a bigger, you know, doctor evil than Donald Trump. Well they have in Elon Musk. Musk setting the Doge team just discovered that FEMA sent fifty nine million dollars last week to luxury hotels in New York City to house I legal immigrants. This was the last week that FEMA sent this money. As Musk said at a statement, sending this money violated the law as a
gross insubordination to the Presidence Executive Order. Cameron Hamilton is the acting FEMA director right now. He was quick to say those payments had been stopped, those responsible, those responsible, be held responsible. There's so much wrong with this. Number one, Trump had already said yet no, and yet somebody or somebody's over FEMA did it anyway. Number Two, it's fifty nine million dollars from an agency say we're not doing that kind of thing. Well, yeah, you just did. And
how many times have you done it? And what's the total tab been on it? Fifty nine million dollars to house illegal immigrants in luxury hotel rooms in New York City. And thirdly, at a time when there was still American tax paying citizens living in tents in the mountains of North Carolina and FEMA couldn't find a way to help them. How many times you heard the story, you know, something some natural disaster happens and we saw it in Hawaii.
Well here, we're gonna cut your check for eight hundred bucks. Oh wow, thank you. You're paying the tab at luxury hotels, which we knew was going on anyway. We knew that the migrants were being housed there. But who's picking up the bill for it, you and I, to the tune of nearly sixty million dollars. Just last week, Now reports that USAID provided millions of dollars in funding to extremist
groups tied to designated terrorist organizations and their allies. This according to a new report just published by Middle East Form, a US think tank. They say their multi year study of USAID and the State Department spending uncovering one hundred and sixty four million dollars of approved grants to radical organizations, with at least one hundred and twenty two million dollars going to groups aligned with designated terrorists and their supporters. Wow.
Uh.
One example, USA was found to given more than a nine hundred thousand dollars to a Gaza based terror charity called Beyader Association for Environment and Development. That funding started actually back when Trump was in the White House in twenty sixteen. The most recent allocation was just days before Hamas attacked Israel in October of twenty twenty three. According to the annual report, it notes that this beator operates in close cooperation with the Hamas regime. Yeah, again, taxpayer
dollars going to enemies of US and Israel. We ran down the list yesterday at some of this ridiculousness. Uh. Two more examples here. Let's see forty five million dollars spent BYAD to Dei scholarships in Burma, nineteen million dollars for two separate inclusion programs in Vietnam, one point three million to provide ARAP in Jewish residence Israeli residents with a collaborative platform, photography skills, a program offering participants mixed
identity photography workshops. How do you come up with this stuff?
And there are real needs around and there are real needs here in this country, but there are real needs around the world when we're being generous and handing our money out, and those those aren't the ones we should be addressing.
No, no, And if you've seen this, Doug Collins, the former Georgia House member now Secretary of Department of Veterans Affairs, saying his team has found and canceled a high price contract with a news outlet. It turns out that the Department of Venter's Affairs was spending one hundred and seventy eight thousand dollars. They had a contract for nearly two hundred grand with Politico Collins says, we promptly canceled it.
That money can be better spent on veterans' healthcare. Now, remember, Politico was among some news outlets identified as getting money from the federal government. That money was discovered to be tied to trade subscriptions for professionals working with the government, so they were paid. You know, I check out Political
from time to time. I don't have a paid subscription, but apparently somebody over the Department of the Veteror's Affairs felt like it was important that professionals working with the government, not for but with the government, have access to the
paid version of Politico. Caro Caroline Love at the White House Press Secretary, last week announced this controversy, saying that those would be working to shut down all payments to Politico, saying at the time, I can confirm that more than eight million taxpayer dollars have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico. Yeah, we talked about that while you were out right. And oh, by the way, in case you missed it, Politico now is not able to pay their employees.
I wonder why all that free government money just just just just went away At some point in time, there's going to be a total, a grand total that may maybe there won't be. Maybe this is as good has to go on and on and on, and we're we're gonna be stunned by the results. I can promise you that keeping you informed.
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Got a lot to work through in a short time deal. Let's get right to it here. Final thoughts here for a Tuesday. They're about sixty five thousand or so workers in the federal bureaucracy that are wishing this judge would have kept their mouth shot. Yesterday, a judge for the second time in less than a week, issuing a restraining order against the mass buy out that the Trump administration
has offered millions of federal employees. There were some sixty five thousand who said, yeah, I'll take money into September to stay home where I've been now for a couple of years but not have to do anything. Some sixty five thousand taking them up on that offer. It's real simple, Yeah, go back to work, go back to work, or hey, you know, we'll pay us September to go ahead and quit. Now, somehow, somehow, this is now a bad idea in this country. You have to go to work second time in less than
a week. Federal judge issuing a restraining order on that. Okay, u Hamas canceling all hostage releases until further notice. They say they claim that Israel is violating the ceasefire agreement. Trump now says, okay, you got until noon Saturday, and not just to let the next you know, a couple of hostages be released, all of them, all of them. If they're not out by noon Saturday, he'll call for the ceasefire to be canceled and let all hell break out.
I doubt they're willing to testimon that.
They'd be smart not to. New video surfacing showing a New York City Teachers Union representative providing instructions on how to help families avoid ice. A rep for the United Federation of Teachers heard coaching educators on how to help illegal immigrants evade ice at home and in public. This was in a zoom session that was obtained by the New York Post.
Wow.
Okay, you know we've got you know, groups here now, activists who were concerned that I was going to go into schools in South Carolin I started yanking kids out. They're trying to inform people how to evade that too. Okay. Oh, the FCC, by the way, looking into a San Francisco radio station. This is uh was it KCBS. Yeah, KCBS where were they actually went live on the air last
month and they are apparently live broadcasting and ICE operation. Wow. Yeah, the host saying that agents were outside of home and gave the exact location and a couple of others. Yeah, the FCC is looking ato that.
That would put those agents in jeopardy, would it not, would it not? Yes, along with the operation in that particular area. Yeah, this is an over the air radio station. But it is San Francisco.
After all. We haven't talked much about because there's so much other, so many other things to talk about. But you know, the budget bill that Trump wants passed, that Speaker Johnson wants passed, well, the House Freedom Caucus standing in its way. They've released their own proposal. So yeah, budget talks as usual at an impasse.
And even if he gets past the House, as we talked about last week, then you've got the Senate and they've got their own ideas a book. The budget will look.
Like, yes, they do. This may be the only time you hear this name, Mark Lynch. Who. Yeah, Mark Lynch. He's an upstate business owner and a one time state House candidate. He's launched his efforts to unseat Lindsay Graham in twenty twenty six. Okay, I'm not sure we'll ever mention his name again, but maybe we will.
I mean, from a name recognition standpoint, he is already way behind the curve.
Yeah, unless you happen to be a customer of Jeff Lynch Appliants and TV center in Greenville. Oh he made know one maybe Okay, Oh, this is weird. Jared Polis, Democrat, Colorado governor and you know again, a Trump resister apparently does like Trump's idea of not making new pennies. As well as saving taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, there are oh here, this is why there are major environmental
benefits to eliminating the penny. This is a great move, okay, as we talked about yesterday, it's trumping had the numbers right on this one. He says, a couple of cents to make a penny, it's over three cents, closer to four. But if you think that's ridiculous, maybe we should be looking at the nickel. You know how much it costs to make one nickel thirteen point eight cents.
Well aren't they saying if we do away with a penny, then we'll have to have more nickels because that will become the lowest denomination of currency.
Well, maybe we can get rid of the nickel to make more pennies. I mean, if a penny, if one cent costs US three point whatever sense to make, well, five cents is costing us thirteen point eight cents to make that's the that's anyway.
A dime's tiny. Maybe we should make more dimes. There you go, make more dime. They're signing their thin. Yes, all right, I think I've just solved our problem right there.
There you go. All right, y'all get on that, will you? How about Google Maps officially? May you get the Gulf of America on Google maps. I was just sitting to the Golf of America last week. It was a beautiful place. The FAA, too, is updated their charting notice confirming that their systems were the process of updating the name to Golf of America in addition to updating Mount McKinley back from being Mount Danai. Very cool and on the lighter side. Well, but not for folks in Sri Lanka. But it was
total chaos. A monkey, one singular monkey, blamed for a nationwide power outage the other day. Apparently this monkey climbed up into a power station started monkeying around. I was assumed the monkey's dead. I don't know, but well, the entire island nation, twenty two million people lost power thanks to that one monkey.
Haven't we heard stories about squirrels doing the exact same thing in our country.
But not an entire nation. True, which is one did. And a Danish campaign has been launched to buy California. You can have it. They're asking for one trillion dollars to be raised to buy California and turn it into a territory that spreads Danish values. I don't know what Danish values are, but I'm gonna bet they've gotta be better than California values. I could be wrong, So.
This is the whole Greenland versus yes, yeah, okay.
I'd be happy to contribute to that, and you probably would too,